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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

252: Creative Problem Solving through Design Thinking with Edgar Papke

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 21 January 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Edgar Papke explores “design thinking” and best practices to foster unpredictable, creative, innovative ideas.


You’ll Learn:

1) How three distinct workplace cultures solve problems differently

2) The process of successful curious confrontation

3) How to choose which problems are worth pursuing


About Edgar 

Edgar Papke is an author, speaker and globally recognized expert in business alignment, leadership and organizational culture. He is the author of True Alignment: Linking Company Culture to Customer Needs for Extraordinary Results, The Elephant in the Boardroom, and numerous essays and articles on business and culture. Edgar provides coaching and consulting to CEO’s and executives, delivers keynote speeches and presentations, and works with leadership teams to improve their alignment. He was recently honored as the Impact and International Speaker of the Year by Vistage, the world’s largest organization for CEOs. Worldwide, over 20,000 executives and leaders have attended his workshops.


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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis. Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 252 with Edgar Pabky.

0:26.4

I think you will find this episode pretty transformational if you really listen to

0:30.6

apply the stuff he says.

0:32.4

We're talking about designed thinking

0:34.2

and how to bring about some creative, innovative ideas.

0:37.0

And my favorite parts are where he talks about

0:38.6

how to engage folks in conversation

0:41.4

in some cool, curious curious confrontation sorts of ways.

0:44.1

So you're going to learn one, how three distinct workplace cultures solve problems differently,

0:48.1

two, the process of successful curious confrontation and three, how to choose which problems are worth

0:54.9

pursuing so if you'd like to check out the show notes the transcript or the links

0:58.6

to items that we've referenced here that's over at awesome at your job

1:01.4

dot com slash f252 and why you're at awesome at your job. dot com slash f252.

1:03.5

And while you're at awesome at your job.

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I encourage you to check out so about nifty stuff.

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